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Metta Health Center

One of the nation’s first fully integrated East Meets West health care facilities, Metta Health Center focuses on Lowell’s Southeast Asian and other refugee populations. “Metta” means loving kindness in the Buddhist Pali language.

Behavioral Health Services are available to all patients at Metta Health Center, including an innovative model for providing behavioral health to Lowell’s Southeast Asian community. This model acknowledges the importance of cultural beliefs and pairs a bicultural mental health specialist with a licensed mental health clinician and, if needed, a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse practitioner. The mental health specialist not only interprets, but also serves as a bridge between cultures in the treatment.

Metta’s staff members are experienced, bilingual and bicultural. The Western providers who treat patients are sensitive to cultural needs.